Corporate DS/UK/3433 Newhall; Bretby Colliery; 1878-1962; coal mine Bretby Colliery Halls Collieries Ltd (1920-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1962) coal mine 1878-1962 Bretby Newhall Stanhope Colliery 1878: colliery opened 1920: bought by Hall's Collieries Limited 1947: nationalised 1962: closed

In 1872, the site was opened for coal mining deveolopment by the Dowager Countess of Chesterfield, who owned the Bretby Hall estate the colliery was sunk on. The coal seam was finally found in 1876. The colliery was opened by the Dowager Countess of Chesterfield in 1878. It was originally known as Bretby No. 3, because two other collieries had been sunk nearby earlier in the century. Bretby No. 1 was closed in 1874 and Bretby No. 2 in 1886. Bretby Colliery (ex No. 3) passed in 1890 to the Earl of Carnarvon, who had inherited it as part of the Chesterfield estate of which his mother had been heir. As he only used Bretby estate for shooting, the site was sold on to Hall's Collieries in 1920. The money received from the sale went towards funding the Tutankhamun expeditions in Egypt. The seams worked were the Eureka, Stanhope, Woodfield, Nether, Stockings, Main and Kilburn coal seams. The highest recorded manpower was 536 in 1924. It was seen as a difficult colliery to run and was briefly closed in 1928. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. It closed for the final time in 1962. Known managers: William Johnson, William Belfitt, R. R. Lishman, Andrew Mein, Frank M Joyce, CR Dickinson, William Wallace (twice manager), Eric P Lawrence, William Tatham, Derek Smith, Ralph Rawlinson, Alec Hindmarsh 'Bretby Colliery Closed After 86 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1962-B.html Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017) Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) 'The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield, 1200-1900' by Colin Owen, 1984 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 19/06/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 ced3b4ab-a40e-4864-a671-b90bbdc9e872